Stewart Regan faces his toughest day in the SFA hotseat today as the Rangers crisis threatens to go global.
Yesterday’s decision at the Court of Session in Edinburgh to refer the decision to impose a 12 month transfer embargo on Rangers has put the SFA firmly in the spotlight.
Having did his best to avoid dealing with the on-going crisis at Ibrox for almost a year Regan now faces the real prospect of sanctions being applied to the Scottish international side as well as clubs looking forward to competing in UEFA competitions next season.
Failure to act firmly today could have a devastating impact on the Scottish game.
After pulling up short of suspending or expelling Rangers the SFA’s generosity has been returned with interest by the Ibrox club.
Sticking to their own punishments Regan must ensure that a suspension, expulsion or ban from next season’s Scottish Cup is imposed on Rangers.
And also consider a punishment for taking football into the civil courts- an action that FIFA clamp down on strongly.
Under Regan’s reign Rangers ignored requests for paperwork over the eligibility of Craig Whyte to be a club director.
The Ibrox side have failed to produce audited accounts since 2010. Transfer fees are due to clubs in Austria, Sweden, Italy, France, England and Scotland.
Any club outwith the SPL would have been hammered for a similar catalogue of offences.
If a clear punishment is not handed out by the SFA today Regan can forget about plans for a trip to Brazil in 2014 with sponsors shipping out of the Scottish game left right and centre over the game’s governing bodies failure to govern and to apply the laws of the game without fear or favour.
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BOOT THEM OUT!!!!!
This could have been all so different if they had only payed the bills instead of chasing trophies they couldn’t afford to chase. If the SFA Fail to act correctly on this the rest of the SPL should take a stand and refuse to play them and that’s before UEFA step in and deal with it. Sion won about 5 court cases and still got booted out the Europa league and then got 36pts took off them in the Swiss league so good luck silly Billy’s enjoy your “victory” how ever hollow it is. Hail hail
Why not say….ok you can SIGN who you want but you can’t PLAY them in any of our competitions. Now if you want to PAY players all season and not use them that’s up to you !
Not sure if the SFL will want a club that ignores the rules of the association…tsk tsk might be season long friendlies with Linfield Home & Away
Joe,
Something stinks about this whole situation…
Go back to step 1…
A panel(including a leading QC)hands out a punishment…which surely must have been legally scrutinised and found to be safe.
Step 2: The Huns protest and lodge an appeal.
Step 3: A panel (including a leading Circuit Judge)reject the Huns appeal thus vindicating the original decision.
Step 4: The Huns squeal again…take legal advice..and instead of going through the Sport route..elect to go to a Civil Court…presumably knowing the ramifications of that…and which are potentially disastrous for them.
Step 5:The latest Judge decides the original QC and subsequent Circuit Judge are idiots for doing what they did…and overturns their decisions…
forcing the SFA to re-convene to discuss fresh sanctions.
Step 6: FIFA now on standby to get involved..if necessary.
My main point here is…
The SFA’s legal boys have been made to look foolish..over a very simple matter it would seem..
and the Huns have deliberately put their neck on the block…WHY?
This is not as straight forward as it would appear…
Something strange is goin on.
I await the next 24/48 hours with much interest.
‘Mon the Tax Man.
They need to galvanise their support against the SFA / SPL for putting them into liquidation…rather than simply admitting their own guilt and folding due to financial stupidity to win tainted titles / trophies.
The SFA can sit back and take all the time required to consider appealing, then simply deicde to ignore the ruling as it is beyond the FIFA guidelines….Embargo stands so take it or leave it….meanwhile they continue to bleed £ 1.5m a month from Charlie Green’s potential profits.
Mike
Couldn’t agree more. Why appeal to get a stiffer punishment. It makes no sense. When looking for the reasons for most things it all comes back to sex and money. I don’t want to even think about Rangers in association with the first point therefore than leaves money. Who will benefit from Rangers being suspended? No football, no football club. Then the scramble for the assets start. Where this is going to end up no one knows. But safe to say, someone is at it big style.